Sentences with phrase «through state associations»

It's also grassroots members, through their state associations of REALTORS ®, that initiate requests for national RPAC contributions to federal candidates.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA), working with and through our state associations to represent more than 90,000 local school board members, advocates for equity and excellence in public education through school board governance.

NSBA, representing more than 90,000 local school board members across the nation, working with and through our state associations, supports the «Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act» (H.R. 5587).

Working with and through our state associations, NSBA will remain steadfast in advocating before Members of Congress and the Administration to ensure that local school districts receive the funding and flexibility vital to continuous improvement in student achievement, and to advancing equity and excellence in public education.

In the letter, Mr. Gentzel wrote «The National School Boards Association (NSBA), representing more than 90,000 local school board members across the nation, working with and through our state associations, supports passage of the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» and applauds the work of the Conference Committee for its bipartisan effort to modernize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Working with and through our state associations, NSBA advocates for equity and excellence in public education through school board leadership.

Through your state association's behind - the - scenes access to HomeOwnershipMatters.realtor, you can create a page for your state association or make use of NAR's Consumer Advocacy Database of 7.5 million names to send targeted emails and social media to your state or local consumers.

Get involved in CAR Leadership and apply your skills to protect the real estate industry and make REALTORS ® more successful through your state association.

This does not preclude the parties from continuing efforts locally or through their state Association to resolve the dispute.

Not exact matches

In Massachusetts, Tesla simply opened for business without going through the legislature and then fended off a legal battle brought by the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association.

Through Jeff's work on the Fund, his volunteer efforts and his role on the Michigan Venture Capital Association's board of directors, his passion for fostering a productive environment for venture capital investment in the State of Michigan is clearly evident.

The Travelers Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a range of commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations, and individuals in the United states and internationally.

For instance, citizens often act together through diverse associations, contexts, activities, and civic relationships in order to achieve their social ends and purposes independently of the state.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

[14] The Declaration of Principles of the International New Thought Alliance (INTA), an association of New Thought groups and denominations, states: «We affirm that the universe is the body of God, spiritual in essence, governed by God through laws which are spiritual in reality even when material in appearance.»

We might fairly have inferred that there was in Paul's mind a fixed association of ideas — resurrection, lordship, judgment — even if he had not explicitly stated that in his preaching of the Gospel he proclaimed a «Day when God judges the secrets of men through Christ Jesus» (Rom.

Consequently, he eventually concluded that the state had the positive obligation through lawmaking to encourage self - help through the protection and enhancement of mediating associations and the extension of assistance to those in need.

As Hobbes's illustration to the Leviathan so eloquently depicted, an increasingly «liberated» citizenry, resulting from the diminishment of constitutive memberships in social groups and associations, would be connected only through one bond, one relation, one connection» the state.

Through their advocacy of the participation of monks in public life the Josephites furthered the close association of Church and State which characterized Byzantine and most of later pre-Communist Russian Christianity.

IG International, India's largest importer and distributor of fresh fruits, imported the first batch of Organic Apples from Wenatchee, United States, through its association with Stemilt Growers, the northwest's largest grower, packer and shipper of organic apples, pears and cherries.

Gibbons is a dedicated advocate for the restaurant industry, as evidenced by his many past and present positions at the state and national level such as at the National Restaurant Association, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic efforts.

Visitors to this region often stop by to visit nearby Washington State University, which has a close association with local vintners through its Campaign for Wine.

The Hawaii State Junior Golf Association is a non-profit, tax - exempt organization under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and gains it's funding through memberships, sponsorships, grants and contributions.

Football is the No. 1 participatory sport for boys at the high school level with 1,121,744 participants in the 2011 - 12 school year, according to the High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the NFHS through its member state associations.

Join the School Nutrition Association for a FREE webinar to learn how to advance school nutrition initiatives at the state and local level through advocacy and proactive media outreach.

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

I have also been blessed with the opportunity over the last year to participate in the extraordinary Portland State University Infant / Toddler Mental Health Graduate Certificate Program and was overjoyed to hear of Infant Mental Health Endorsement ® as it came to Oregon through the Oregon Infant Mental Health Association.

NAEYC doesn't set adult - to - child ratios for home daycare, but you can find out if a provider complies with home daycare ratios set by your state by visiting the National Association for Family Child Care's website (NAFCC) and looking through the NAFCC's list of accredited daycare providers.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

We spoke with Noël Janis - Norton, author of «Calmer, Easier, Happier Homework,» Neil McNerney, author of «Homework: A Parent's Guide to Helping Out Without Freaking Out,» Dr. Kenneth Goldberg, author of «The Homework Trap,» Jean Hessburg, from the Iowa State Education Association, and Steve Baker, from the New Jersey Education Association, and got their expert recommendations for how sitters can sail through homework time.

The grants, funded through the state's Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund program, were announced by Gov. George Ryan at the Illinois Association of Park Districts» annual meeting in Peoria.

Laws concerning concussions in youth sports have passed during 2011 in five states — South Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah — and bills are working their way through legislatures in other states, according to the National Athletic Trainers» Association, which backs the bills and is tracking them.

There are many milk banks through out the United States that are registered members of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.

In partnership with the International Association of Infant Massage, our mission is to promote nurturing touch and communication through training, education, and research so that parents, caregivers and children are loved, valued, and respected throughout the United States and the world community.

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Streams high school games and events live through a joint venture of the NFHS, its member state associations and PlayOn!

Michelle holds certificates of education in Trauma Informed Services from Portland State University, EMDR from the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Institute and a certificate of education in Play Therapy Practices with recognition as a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor (RPT - S) through The Association for Play Therapy.

Just like symbiosis in nature, which involves prolonged association, states and cultural domains thrive through mutual interests and interdependencies.

The impact of the shootings rippled through the winter meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington this weekend, as state leaders expressed willingness to consider new limits on gun ownership and stepped up efforts to address mental - health factors.

As mayors prepared to make their case, the state School Boards Association released a survey that found work force costs in schools outside the state's major cities are on track to grow an average of more than $ 1 billion annually by the 2013 - 14 school year; revenues under a tax cap, however, would grow only $ 229 million per year through 2013 - 14, on average.

Governor Andrew Cuomo was conspicuously absent through much of the annual New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus association weekend in Albany.

Alcantara — who will replace outgoing Sen. Adriano Espaillat — said she had worked on the push for a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave in her capacity as a union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and she credits the five - member IDC for being able to push those measures through a Republican - controlled Senate that was cool to those issues.

Through an historic partnership with the New York State Police, New York City Police Department, New York State Sheriffs» Association and the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, the Division of Criminal Justice Services and its Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse have expanded Operation SAFE CHILD.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

He also stated that the association was excited by the progress made in the amendment of the Constitution by the National Assembly, adding that the «exercise would greatly remove all constitutional impediments on the granting of autonomy through financial and administrative independence to the Office of the Auditors - General at the federal, state and local governments in the country.»

«It's unfortunate we have to jump through all these hoops and wait all this time just to get basic information,» said association President Brian Sampson, who decried what he said was the state's «delaying tactics.»

ALBANY — The National Rifle Association makes few political donations directly to politicians in heavily Democratic New York, but instead has spread more than $ 175,000 in contributions over the past 10 years to political parties and more than $ 13,000 to the parties and politicians through its state affiliate, state records show.

The deal offered to Civil Service Employees Association Local 058, to run through 2022, is similar to a contract recently approved by one of the state's largest unions, the Public Employees Federation, with 2 percent annual raises going forward.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

The tendency to dominate, in particular, is an element of all human associations, from the family through fraternal and professional associations and local political organizations, to the state.